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arm mun aacmua'rron mocass Lewis M. mom, South Onone rel-x, N. I.

No Drawing. Original No. 2,011,411, dated omber 15, 1935, Serial No. 696,922, November 6, 1933; hpplioaation for reissue May 16, 1986,

Serial No. 80,2

2 Claims. (c1. e1-s5) This invention relates to a garbage, ashes, and refuse disposal and land reclamation process and has for an object to provide a process of simultaneously disposing of such materials as garbage, ashes, and refuse and of reclaiming low lying lands, especially bogs or swamps or low lying properties in the neighborhood of the shore or beach.

A further object of thisinvention is to provide a process of disposing of objectionable garbage,

ashes, and refuse in sucha manner as to permanently dispose thereof :and at the same time to raise the level of low lying land a desired extent from ten to twenty feet.

A further object of this invention is to provide a systematic burying process for eliminating all traces of smell or other objectionable after effects which will not only dispose of thegarbage, ashes, and refuse, but at the same time makes the land more favorable because it is raised to a de- With the foregoing and other objects in view, as will hereinafter become apparent, this invention comprises the methods and processes hereinafter disclosed and claimed. I

In carrying out the objects of this invention an extensive low lying territory is chosen, Such territories are often found in the neighborhood of the shore or the beaches and, are of little value principally because of their low level and'usually swampynature. Flushing bog in New York is an example of a territory suitable for thisprocr is.

trench of the height that it is desired to raise the land is dug along one edge of the territory, preferably by a steam or gas shovel. If the territory is close to a beach orispartlywithin the limits of the high tide, then a sand sucker may be'used for the purpose of digging the trench.- As the trench is dug the soil therefrom is disposed along to. If the land is too soft temporary wooden roadways would be built along the edge of the trench, allowing access thereto.

Then the garbage, ashes, and refuse is dmnped into the bottom of the trench commencing at one end thereof and proceeding progressively along' the trench. As soon as thegarbage, ashes, and

refuse has been deposited to a suiiicient depth at one edge of the trench, a second is dug at'much less expense and with more valuable re- I that the garbage, ashes, and refuse when buried will be covered by at least from six to ten feet of soil so that the garbage and refuse will decompose in a slow process and amalgamate with the soil as though the territory were a cemetery.

- With the garbage and refuse thus of by burial it is not accessible to rats because all possible food is buried too deep for access to rats or other vermin.

when the land within the limits between the low and high tide water is being raised above high water mark, the garbage, ashes, and refuse can be brought to these places by garbage trucks and dumped into the trenchprepared by the sand sucker. Then as the trench is filled with garbage, ashes and refuse the sand sucker provides an additional trench alongside depositing the sand from the second trench on top of the garbage, ashes and refuse in the first trench.

Valuable land is thus reclaimed and made much more useful. Likewise the garbage, ashes, and refuse is disposed of in a satisfactory manner,

suits than. with the present methods of burning v the garbage and refuse in an incinerator or In carrying out this invention a deep long dumping it at sea, the process of dumping garbage, ashes, and refuse at sea. having the obvious objectionable feature that the currents and tides cast vast portions thereon on adjacent beaches polluting the tide waters and beaches and destroying the value thereof. The processofthis inventionismostvaluable in the neighborhood of large cities having large amounts of garbage, ashes, and refuse to dispose of and at the same time having vast areas or otherwise worthless land. After the land is reclaimed in this manner and its height has been suitably raised, it may be used for any desired purpose, residential, business or otherwise. .The process is so valuable from the standpointof increasing the value of the-land that the city can derive revenue therefrom by charging a fee for increasing the value of privately owned low lying land instead of as in the present manner of having to pay for the expense of disposing of the garbage.

By making the digging of the trenches, the,

depositing of garbage, ashes and refuse and the digging of an adjacent trench to cover the garbage, ashes and refuse a continuous process, the garbage, ashes and refuse can be disposed of and covered up the same hour it is picked 'up, thus allowing a minimum time for decomposing in the open air.

The novel features and the operation of this method will be apparent from the foregoing description. While the method has been described in detail, it is obvious that this is not to be considered limited to the exact form disclosed and, that any changes may'be made therein within'the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus set forth and disclosed the nature of this invention, what is claimed is:

1. In the process of disposing of garbage, ashes and refuse, the steps of digging a trench, burying garbage, ashes and refuse at the bottom of Y said trench, digging an adjacent trench, deposit ing the soil dug from the second trench on top of the garbage, ashes and refuse deposited on the bottom of the first trench, burying garbage, ashes and refuse at the bottom of said adjacent 5 trench and digging an additional adjacent trench and depositing the soil from said additional ad- :Iacent trench on the top of the garbage, ashes and refuse deposited in the first adjacent trench.

2. A process for disposing of materials, such as 10 garbage, ashes .and refuse, and simultaneously reclaiming and increasing the height of land, consisting of digging a trench, filling the trench to a predetermined height with said materials, digging a second trench adjacent to the first 5 trench, and depositing the soil removed from the second trench on top of said materials in the first trench to thereby elevate the land located over said first trench.

mwrs M. MCCAR'I'HY. 2o- 

